Ellen, Andrew and I talk about Lego Serious Play at the Agile Games Day 2014. I first encountered the serious play series at this Games Day. It is an amazing system and I hope to use it in my Agile coaching and consulting soon. I think you will enjoy this interview as much as I did.

In the first of my video series I chat with Esther Derby. We talk about Organizational Models and analyzing team dynamics vs individual coaching. Among other ideas we discuss the following change models.

Hackman Model:

http://www.team-diagnostics.com/the-model.php

BJ Fogg Model:

http://www.behaviormodel.org

If you are interested in the video of this interview please go to the LitheSpeed Youtube channel here:

I speak with Mary and Ellen about their book Discover to Deliver. Creating a Structured Conversation about the discovery process. If you want to build the right thing you need to get people together and explore the space, find the value and find a way to confirm.

They evaluate the dimensions of features along the following dimensions:

User

Action

Data

Control

Interface

Environment

Quality

I love the fact that they went for a visual management, lean startup and agile delivery to pull this book together.

Karl and I chat about Kanban and Visual Management. For those listeners who are familiar with my podcast you will know that Visual Management on physical boards is a topic that I am personally interested in and love helping my clients with.

Karl thinks about kanban boards with the following acronym T.I.P.

Token - The representational piece that moves through the process, different types may be used

Inscription - Graphics and words on the card representing what needs to be done

In this episode I speak with Kent McDonald regarding his work in Agile business analysis, our lab at the conference, his books and his work as the chair of Agile 2013. I have worked with Kent for several years and find his talent, humor and pragmatism a wonderful addition to any project.

Jeff Morgan and I talk about his work with Cucumber and his creation of many gems. He is a great guy to chat with and I need to make it to Cleavland to work on the boat with him. He and I run into each other at conferences and occasionaly on client sites.

I speak with Tom and Dustin regarding the work they have done to roll out agile within Nationwide. I worked with them both in the past and it is extrordinarily gratifying to see the seeds of your labor grown into such a giant tree. They have created the right ballance of structure that allows them to bring up teams and agility to allow those teams to innovate.